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Friday April 7th 2006

Active Locations
[Port Said]

News - 15/Feb/06
  • Admins are extremely busy right now so expect delays in our responce time for emails! Thanks for your understanding.
  • News - 13/Dec/05
  • We recently got contacted by the science and technology chairperson of the "Egyptian American United Social and Legal Funds (for?) NGO's", who is also a senior webdesigner of the "Public Relations Society of America" website (www.prsa.org). (NGO = non-gov org.)
  • The message concerned a current project of theirs involving gathering Arab IT proffessionals under the theme of "Arabic e-business website development" and "internet security".
  • They formed 7 months ago and have 22 members so far
  • Any egypt2600 watchers in the states interested in joining?
  • News - 09/Dec/05
  • New VOTING PAGE added! Please vote, we apreciate the feedback!
  • A meeting location for Cairo2600 has been suggested.
  • News - 02/Dec/05
  • It's 2600 day today! But that soon might change... Read on ...
  • We were live on air with Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600, on his weekly radio show "Off the Hook"!
  • We asked for special permissions involving bending the official rules of 2600, as we are the first (and only so far) official meeting in the entire Middle-East.
  • If everyone can by majority agree, we can have Middle East 2600 meetings on every first THURSDAY of the the month instead! Please check out the link provided below for more detail on all of this!
  • LINK to article on Egypt2600 on OTH. Please also take the time to vote, to give us your opinion!
  • News - 11/Oct/05
  • A Forum is being worked on very slowly
  • We have been given permission to host light downloads if we so choose. A Files Section is being worked on.
  • Some emails backlogged emails from the past that we intended to reply to accidentally got deleted unfortunatly. Since we have had this problem, regarding email, every time we have moved server, we are NOT using @egypt2600.net email addresses. Please use the email provided at the top of the page to contact us.
  • Two more articles that have been added to the Documents page! This is also the first arabic article we have posted on this site, submitted by Cryptonomicon, our cairo admin.
  • News - 18/Jun/05
  • Meetup.com have finally given up hosting their UNOFFICIAL cairo2600 meetings (that we did not support). Please do not join them, and get ready for our own cairo2600. Click here to see the unofficial one shut down

  • Check our News Archive for older news, since the opening of Egypt2600.

    Egypt2600 News Archive

    News - 17/Jun/05
  • New Featured Site of the Month! Free Gary McKinnon Support Site/Blog
  • News - 04/Apr/05
  • We have a huge pile of emails to go through as our mailboxes unfortunately had to get merged. We're sorry, we stopped responding some months back - we had much less time to work on the site as our admins had a lot of personal things to get done (move of country...etc). We will be sorting through emails over the next while.
  • The promised translation service never fully worked, but we'll still work on it in our spare time.
  • If for any reason the next first Friday of the month is not up in the 'next meeting' box, the meet will still be happening! We will try our hardest that the site is always up to date.
  • News - 06/Sep/04
  • We apologise for the long downtime recently. We were moving the site to a different server. The website is going to be worked on properly again soon (when we have some time).
  • Emails are not currently being answered, but all emails are getting received and saved
  • News - 06/May/04
  • Our arabic translation engine should be up and running within a few days. Just click the appropriate flag in the Language selection.
  • We are no longer using our old mailing list. We are now using a mailing list we run completely. Nobody will have to re-subscribe, everything has been taken care of.
  • Please help us in finding an appropriate meeting place for cairo2600.
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    News - 16/Apr/04
  • We are now officially a branch of 2600
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    News - 16/Apr/04
  • Apologies for the recent time of inactivity and lack of updates to the website.
  • We are currently having problems with the mailing list. We may try fixing the problem soon, or just decide to find a more reliable service.
  • We are currently actively looking for a location for our future Cairo2600 meeting. Please email us with suggestions.
  • We thank Napalm of NetCore2K again for redeveloping the site completely.
  • News - 13/Mar/04
  • We are pleased to announce that the over 85% of people shown the new site said yes, so we have now implemented it.
  • Language selection does not work currently but soon to be implemented.
  • Many thanks to Napalm of NetCore2K for redeveloping the site completely.
  • News - 16/Dec/03
  • The old mailing list will be announced dead later today.
  • @egypt2600.net email addresses are available now for special members.
  • Some changes to the website have been made, feedback welcome.
  • More Egyptian payphones in the last issue of 2600 by Encrypted_Error. Pictures will be posted when available.
  • A second admin may be announced soon.
  • News - 07/Dec/03
  • New article posted here. Interesting read I find.
  • News - 04/Nov/03
  • The website has successfully been moved to the new, and more secure server.
  • Cairo2600 *may* happen April 2nd 2004 in Cairo.
  • We've had some 'interesting' visitors to our website.
  • Watch out for the new mailing list coming soon. You will be required to reconfirm you still want to be on it unfortunately.
  • Email addresses @egypt2600.net will be available soon to special members.
  • Greater security measures are constantly being implemented.
  • Watch out for photos of the last meeting, and and a brief meeting report soon
  • For older news, dating back to the beginning of egypt2600 click the link below
    [ Old news archive ]

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